Mike Boylan-Kolchin

It's all so pointless and cruel, and I hate it.

My student gave a great informal presentation today, and I crossed two sets of reviews off my to do list

E. E. Cummings catching strays

At my funeral, people better be cracking jokes and telling maudlin stories with at least a loose basis in reality, not talking about how they predicted the future except for my death

The significant military operations will continue until we are no longer not at war. Wait, let me rephrase

It may be because I'm seeing a biased subset of posts, but I only see "I hear a lot of folks in the military unwittingly get nazi tattoos", never "I'm in the military and I know a bunch of folks who unwittingly got nazi tattoos"

10 years service in both the Navy and Army, including the infantry and lots of time spent with Marines, and I don’t remember seeing a single Nazi tattoo.

More of this, less of the rest of <waves hands in general direction of the world> please

It may be because I'm seeing a biased subset of posts, but I only see "I hear a lot of folks in the military unwittingly get nazi tattoos", never "I'm in the military and I know a bunch of folks who unwittingly got nazi tattoos"

founder: "I will be vindicated by history"

history: "first of all, keep my name out of your mouth"

Ostrich ass understanding of the world

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It would actually be interesting to do polling experiments where the questions are along the lines of "President Trump has announced support for <random abhorrent position>; are you in favor of it as well?"

Simpsons meme with Homer standing on some barrels of alcohol and saying TO JERRY - THE CAUSE OF AND SOLUTION TO ALL OF BLUESKY'S PROBLEMS

The significant military operations will continue until we are no longer not at war. Wait, let me rephrase

nowadays, every time I get a typo-ridden email, I immediately think "Epstein files?" irrespective of the source

there are probably more ironclad third rails in US politics than gas prices, but I'm having trouble thinking of them right now

I just wish there were some way to calculate this mathematically. Too bad that's impossible.

I am fully confident that costs already exceeding $1 billion daily and escalating by a factor of 2 every 48 hours can be sustained indefinitely.

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I need at least 500...but we have to overkill, or else face legal challenges. Sign up to help in Princeton, Montgomery...or another town in NJ-12.

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Enough people have weighed in on the Platner issue, I have nothing to add there. I just would like to take issue with the "acceptable under all conditions" classification example:

NY times: Strong Hiring Likely Continued Early This Year The report for February comes as employers have been reluctant to lay off workers, aside from some headline-grabbing announcements at big companies. See more updates

Impressive, very nice, now let’s see the data

I have a theory that 80% of these dudes would be more reasonable if their moms made them get decent haircuts once a month

Also: if the policy is to kill possible heads of state and throw the country into chaos, as it seems to be, who has the authority to surrender, both officially and operationally?

This is a very good encapsulation of how a lot of us feel about the impact of AI on a day to day basis which is that using it to find information can be more helpful than Google but a lot of that is because Google has gotten much worse

Side note: just hearing that publishing does not, in fact, stave off death and I am outraged

Don't Blame Me I voted for Gonzo

there are probably more ironclad third rails in US politics than gas prices, but I'm having trouble thinking of them right now